Hello! Br. Ricky here. I’m purring because you decided to visit this page! Here you’ll find “tools” for Benedictine living. Each tool is associated with a “Mewsing on the Rule of St. Benedict.” Mewsings are articles about the Rule of St. Benedict and Benedictine spirituality. They are offered by Cloister members and novices.
This is a brand new page as of December, 2023. That’s why there aren’t lots of tools yet. But I have consulted with the Cloister and members agreed to prepare tools to help you. We want to do ALL WE CAN to encourage the practice of Benedictine ways.
We all hope that these tools will be of help. We will be adding more as time goes along.
Blessings to you.
I had a long mew with Amma last week. She’s concerned that there are Cloister members who are straying from their deeper purpose – to love God and others and to follow the guidance of the Rule. Aware of Benedict’s instructions to the superior to “exercise the...
"See how the Lord in his love shows us the way of life."Prologue 20It is the liturgical season of Lent as I write this. Is it for you as well?Many of us spend Lent in clutch mode, interspersed with bouts of guilt when we fall off the Lenten wagon. Suddenly we...
Purpose of the Tool: To help you develop a practice of realizing God’s love for you in the ordinary stuff of daily life. Background on the Tool: God’s love is with us all the time. We just need to open our eyes and ears to this love. The Tool: To adopt a practice...
What is the desire of your heart? To lose 20 pounds, to find a better job, to get your son to pick up his room, to find help with care-taking responsibilities? These may be helpful, but desire of the heart I am asking us to consider is an inner desire that springs...
Purpose of the Tool: To help discern the desire of your heart and take steps to bring this desire to life. Background on the Tool: Every day we make choices in what we do and say that are impacted by what we truly desire. We are not always aware of what these...
Purpose of the Tool: To bring the ideas shared in the article "Living from the Spiritual Heart" into daily life. Background on the Tool: In the Tilden Edwards provides clear direction on ways that we can fashion our spiritual practices to have a better awareness of...
“Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God. Prologue 9a What is living from the spiritual heart? What does this way of living look like when we fix a meal, drive to work, or mow the lawn? How might a spiritual heart impact how we approach and do those...